...hamstrings every discursive practice. Even when she speaks of compulsion and failure, she says: 1f the rules governing signification not only restrict,...repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible. The injunction to be a given gender produces necessary failures . . . The coexistence or...

...practice of signification? That of parodic repetition or repetition with a difference. She remarks: If the rules governing signification not only restrict,...alternative domains of cultural intelligibility, ie, [in the case of gender] new possibilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical binarisms,...

..."within the practices of repetitive signifying," not from claims to independent and discrete identities: If the rules governing signification not only restrict,...repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible. (GT, p. 145) It is important to note that Butler's understanding of signification and subversion...

...repeat; "agency," then, is to be located within the possibility of a variation on that repetition. If the rules governing signification not only restrict,...repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible. The injunction to be a given gender produces necessary failures, a variety of incoherent...

...success or failure hinge, in large part, on how the audience responds, on what it does and doesn't grasp? "It is only within the practices of repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible," Butler maintains.48 I am prepared, even happy, to grant that. But is it always within such...

..."girling of the girl") necessarily carry with them more than mere contextual determinations of identity: "the rules governing signification not only restrict,...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility" (Gender, 145). For Butler, as for Derrida, to say that subjective agency is "performative" is not to...

...performative theory, that a similar process of repetition might subvert those very identities. Butler writes: "it is only within the practices of repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible" (Gender Trouble, 145). Gender is exposed as an "act" through practices of parody such as...

...insists that, because one is always already 'inside' the social structures that regulate one's actions, 'it is only within the practices of repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible' (Gender 145). This reworking of the relationship between determining social structures and...

...possibility of a variation or repetition of the rule-bound discourses that constitute the subject: "[I]t is only within the practices of repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible" (Butler, 145). Additionally, the bracketing of positive and negative judgments allows for...

...repeat; "agency," then, is to be located within the possihility of a variation on that repetition. If the rules governing signification not only restrict,...enable the assertion of alternative domains of cultural intelligihility, ie, new possihilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical hinarisms,...